If Montyball is what they play without Ryno, what do we call it when he's playing?

And just for the people who continue to hate Monty, can you explain why after these last couple of weeks?

We've been great in the third quarter. He lit a fire under AFA's ass. The pace has been great and the offense is running quite smoothly. We're second (second!) in the league in fast break points. The defensive rotations have been fantastic. The players obviously love playing for him, as the effort has been through the roof.

It seems that the vast majority of hate he was getting stemmed from problems solved by allowing the cast to gel.

Maybe. I think they'd be much better off today without Anderson (if everyone else was healthy) than they were to start the season. They hadn't gotten used to one another yet, and not having Ryno out there certainly didn't help. Right now they're playing much better on both ends.

How many times do I have to type the word: SPACING. It's everything in the NBA and basketball in general. It's why the Pelicans are so much better with Anderson. When teams can't clog the paint, it opens up the driving lanes for (Surprise!) Eric Gordon and (Wow!) Tyreke Evans and (No Kidding!) Jrue Holiday. That's fundamental basketball, please take note and stop being amazed, but revel in the amazement.

the spacing was there. You know very little about basketball so you just yell SPACING because you hear it on tv here and there. SPACING didn't effect the defense which was horrendous. while Ryno was gone. Ryno has surprisingly covered up alot of the flaws of the defense that was there. If Ryno gets hurt again I don't want to go back to questionable defense at best.

And the spacing was there...Morrow got off to a good start. The lanes were there, they were kicking it out. Gordon was shooting the 3 fairly well. We were getting in the lane when we wanted. We just settled for the pick and pop way too much. Now if you watch we are doing low block to block screens and high low screens besides that. So SPACING was not at fault for lack of screens. We are setting screens for Ryno to get open all around the court. Why not do that when hes out? but keep yelling out spacing because Jalen Rose mentioned it on tv.